12 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the ffew days of his gvain life, which he passes hlike a shadow? For iwho can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
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Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
Ecclesiastes 5:18
Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.
Ecclesiastes 7:15
In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 8:9
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
for our days on earth are a shadow.
Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.
Psalm 39:6
Surely a man goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
Psalm 102:11
My days are like an evening shadow;
I wither away like grass.
Psalm 109:23
I am gone like a shadow at evening;
I am shaken off like a locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 3:22
So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?
Ecclesiastes 8:7
For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
Ecclesiastes 10:14
A fool multiplies words,
though no man knows what is to be,
and who can tell him what will be after him?
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